Paul Newman Quotes
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The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.
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If I ever feel like I’m doing something I’ve done before, I scrap it and start over again.
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The best thing you can give yourselves...is the gift of possibility. And the best thing you can give each other is the pledge to go on protecting that gift in each other as long as you live.
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If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.
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From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.
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I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.
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The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'
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I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.
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The need is great and so are the opportunities to make a difference.
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Watching something is nothing like doing it.
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Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.
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I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.
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People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
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I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.
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I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.
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What we got here is a failure to communicate.
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Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
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When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.
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So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.
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...." I was rather discouraged when I discovered that Paul and Hotch had no marketing survey, no business plan, no budget, no organized strategy for the introduction of the sauce. When asked about this lack of preparation, the haphazard nature of their business, Paul said, 'Me in this business is just part of life's great folly. Stay loose, men, keep 'em off balance.'"
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I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. You don't want any woman to look under the carpet because there's lots of flaws underneath. Joanne believes my character in a film we did together, "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" comes closest to who I really am. I personally don't think there's one character who comes close... but I learned a long time ago not to disagree on things that I don't have a solid opinion about.
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The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.
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You only grow when you are alone.
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Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.